Bollywood's India : a public fantasy /
Joshi, Priya,
Bollywood's India : a public fantasy / Priya Joshi. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: The social work of cinema -- Bollywood's India -- Making India -- Remaking India I -- Remaking India II -- Unmaking "India" -- Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination" -- Police and thieves -- Career opportunities -- Cinema as family romance -- Film, family, and family romance -- Deewaar, the manifest narrative -- "India is Indira" -- Bollywood, Bollylite -- The world according to Bollywood -- The world according to Hollywood -- Bollylite in America -- Epilogue: Anthem for a new India.
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its films contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes 'India'. Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, this work analyses the role of Bollywood's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India.
In English.
023153907X (electronic bk.) 9780231539074 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
10.7312/josh16960 doi 40024639793
C0A7E826-1C21-4EB6-B2BE-33D35E1F0D1F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt145j5mr JSTOR
2014042100
1900-1999
Motion pictures--History--India--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Cinéma--Histoire--Inde--20e siècle.
Cinéma--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Motion pictures.
India--In motion pictures.
India.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.I8 / J673 2015eb
791.43/0954
Bollywood's India : a public fantasy / Priya Joshi. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: The social work of cinema -- Bollywood's India -- Making India -- Remaking India I -- Remaking India II -- Unmaking "India" -- Cinema as public fantasy "two dynasties that rule the nation's popular imagination" -- Police and thieves -- Career opportunities -- Cinema as family romance -- Film, family, and family romance -- Deewaar, the manifest narrative -- "India is Indira" -- Bollywood, Bollylite -- The world according to Bollywood -- The world according to Hollywood -- Bollylite in America -- Epilogue: Anthem for a new India.
Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its films contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes 'India'. Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, this work analyses the role of Bollywood's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India.
In English.
023153907X (electronic bk.) 9780231539074 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
10.7312/josh16960 doi 40024639793
C0A7E826-1C21-4EB6-B2BE-33D35E1F0D1F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt145j5mr JSTOR
2014042100
1900-1999
Motion pictures--History--India--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Cinéma--Histoire--Inde--20e siècle.
Cinéma--Histoire--États-Unis--20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Motion pictures.
India--In motion pictures.
India.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.I8 / J673 2015eb
791.43/0954